David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot 173
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC report that David Braben has launched a Kickstarter for a remake of Elite, the classic space trading game that he co-wrote in the 1980s. It has already received £122,000 in less than a day."
For those who don't know what Elite was (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Going to have a hard time topping modern remake (Score:4, Informative)
The problem with X3 and Eve are their learning curves. They're vertical cliffs.
As was Elite.
Re:Going to have a hard time topping modern remake (Score:4, Informative)
A modern project like that is a HUGE undertaking.
But this is David Braben. He's the undisputed master of making huge things small. Original Elite put thousands of unique planets in 32K. Frontier put the entire galaxy on a floppy disk. The Raspberry Pi gave us a USB-stick sized general purpose computer for $35. If anyone can make something huge manageable, it's him.